between brett's dumbass 'handoff' to urlacher on our own goal line which, all of james jones' seven fumbles aside, turned the game around...also the fact that we stopped throwing to our recievers in the second half, rather to dig the 'underhanded shovel pass' from the playbook

i could talk about the time management on the last drive but i elect not to because it should never have come down to that

us at 5-0 and the bears at 1-4 would've been great because DET and MIN dont concern me at all...but this team just didn't want to win...i'd love to credit this to inexperience but i'm placing brett's first INT as the reason why this game completely turned around

I also notice most of the forum has been fairly level-headed and not overreacting to this loss. :roll:

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Yes, even Chamuko is trying to look on the bright side. And I think he's right. Maybe this team needed a wake-up call. It's a dirty shame to lose this game, though. If the Packers played decently and McCarthy didn't have BY FAR his worst day of game coaching, this not only would've been a Packer victory, it would've been a killing, something like 38-13.

Seriously though, turnovers and penalties killed us. Yes, we should have won, and we lost. Yet tomorrow the sun will still rise, and we're still in 1st place. Hopefully everyone from MM on down will live and learn from this.

The team was not focused tonight. We had some nice plays but by and large this game should have been put away in the first quarter. The fumbles by Jones, Woodson and the interception by Favre killed us tonight. The play calling by McCarthy in the second half was disgusting. You don't call a game not to lose, and that's what I felt he was doing.

Let's hope they learn from this because it could be a devastating loss, not unlike the Badgers loss on Saturday.

I can't believe how conservative McCarthy became in the second half. His play calling was very Sherman-esque.

And the challenges were both dumb calls. The first challenge was an obvious call, listen to your guys in the booth. I've always thought that when teams challenge the spot of the ball, they should simply challenge that. When teams try to challenge whether it was a first down or a touchdown they frequently lost challenges even if the original spot was a couple inches off.

Losing those timeouts hurt us. Calling that timeout before half instead of letting Brett spike the ball hurt us too, IMO. The final two minute drill was also very sloppy. All the passes in the middle of the field, no out routes.

I think McCarthy, like our team, is young and still growing. Hopefully, the result of this game will only make him a stronger wiser coach.

Sloppy play all around. The first Favre pick left me scratching my head.

Bottom line: We are better than the Bears. Take away are turnovers, and we win the game. Period.

11 games left this season... I definitely hope this loss will light a fire under our young club's ***.

every ******* year the patriots are the best team the colts are close behind...... and watching this game tonight if those refs wernt paid then im not a packer fan, they ****** us over and over and we did turn the ball over but i mean they straight ****** us with calls